A musical theme used throughout an opera to represent a character or plot situation. Also called a ‘signature tune’. It is identified with Wagner’s operas in which the device was ...
The traditional narratives of any culturally bound group, typically exemplified in stories and/or characters that have emotional and cognitive resonance with such a group and that ...
In the visual arts, some thing that serves as the subject of a representation, often used of persons sitting for portraits (i. E. A “sitter”), or of the person depicted bodily in ...
Of the present, or, increasingly, of recent times, in its use as a designator of a cultural movement that dominated most of the twentieth century. In fact, the historical limits ...
In static visual arts, the perceptual effect or illusion of movement, effected by the elements of an image that lure the eye to perceive change. The way the eye views an image can ...
A design made by setting colored objects in mortar. It is one of the oldest forms of decoration. Early mosaics were typically made on floors, though in both the byzantine east and ...
A body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of ...
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